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by Tim F|  January 2, 200812:45 pm| 162 Comments

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Compare our blog’s lameness against other examples of historical lamitude. The list should include Carrot Top, New Coke and Battlefield Earth.

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  1. 1.

    Billy K

    January 2, 2008 at 12:46 pm

    I’m having a hard time differentiating.

  2. 2.

    LiberalTarian

    January 2, 2008 at 12:47 pm

    Does it make me anti-intellectual if re Battlefield Earth I have neither read nor watched the movie? I could just never drum up the interest.

  3. 3.

    myiq2xu

    January 2, 2008 at 12:48 pm

    How lame? Let’s just say that Jeebus would just shrug and say “Sorry, outta my league.”

    s/ The Notorious myiq2xu

  4. 4.

    Bombadil

    January 2, 2008 at 12:49 pm

    Great, now there’s an open thread (timing is everything). I’ve been away, and I’m getting caught up. Why has no one (especially John Cole) commented on the $4 million dollar law suit?

  5. 5.

    Breschau

    January 2, 2008 at 12:51 pm

    I wouldn’t go badmouthing Carrot Top. You seen the guns on him recently? He’d open a can of whoop ass on y’all.

    And in my book, the scale of lameness really should start with “We Built This City”.

  6. 6.

    LiberalTarian

    January 2, 2008 at 12:51 pm

    Duh. “… read the book nor watched the movie.” I’m fired from the commentary club. I’ve got to take the preview more seriously.

  7. 7.

    Zifnab

    January 2, 2008 at 12:52 pm

    Does it make me anti-intellectual if re Battlefield Earth I have neither read nor watched the movie? I could just never drum up the interest.

    No, but it does mean your Theta levels are too high.

  8. 8.

    Bombadil

    January 2, 2008 at 12:52 pm

    And yes, I know — “$4 million dollar[s]” contains a glaring redundancy.

  9. 9.

    Jake

    January 2, 2008 at 12:55 pm

    I can’t compare it to Carrot Top because this blog shows no signs of steroid abuse. I never tried New Coke and BFE is right out because BJ may experience periods of lameness but it does not approach the black hole level of suck exhibited by the movie.

  10. 10.

    myiq2xu

    January 2, 2008 at 12:57 pm

    If this blog is a “1” then Kenny vs Spenny is into negative numbers.

  11. 11.

    Dreggas

    January 2, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    am I the only one to find this amusing?

    Then again I was talking with a co-worker who has an even darker sense of humore who said this can only be good PR for us because when ya think about it, we made Afghanistan safe enough for refugees to flee TO instead of from.

  12. 12.

    Chris

    January 2, 2008 at 1:06 pm

    Not as a lame as the Youtube comments section.

    Unless we get some of the illustrious trolls back. Then I think more observation might be necessary to determine this comparison.

  13. 13.

    skip

    January 2, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    Atlas Shrugged should de re-named Atlas Woofed His Cookies.

  14. 14.

    Jen

    January 2, 2008 at 1:15 pm

    Ah, the youtube comments section…may I plug my daughter’s cuteness? We have a video of her saying her version of “I love you” which sounds exactly, but exactly, like “donuts”. We called it “I love you (donuts)”. Someone commented that they didn’t know why it was called “I love you (donuts)”. Heck, I’ll just link to it, it’s only 16 seconds, is this thread open enough for that?

  15. 15.

    Michael D.

    January 2, 2008 at 1:15 pm

    Not as lame as a movie starring Fabio featuring the music of Kenny G and/or Zamfir.

  16. 16.

    Jen

    January 2, 2008 at 1:22 pm

    Didn’t Michael D. like Starship Troopers? That’s a pretty abominable movie. Haven’t seen Battleship Earth.

  17. 17.

    srv

    January 2, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    This site’s commentors are so lame, the echo hasn’t faded since Darrell’s departing smackdown.

    It’s who you are.

  18. 18.

    4tehlulz

    January 2, 2008 at 1:28 pm

    Alberto Gonzalez’s ’07 congressional testimony has got to have been the lamest thing ever. Balloon Juice is nowhere near that.

    It may be somewhere near Waterworld levels, though.

  19. 19.

    srv

    January 2, 2008 at 1:29 pm

    Oh, and if Battlefield Earth was redone with Carrot Top and New Coke, it would still be better than BJ and The Wire.

  20. 20.

    Chris

    January 2, 2008 at 1:29 pm

    Alberto Gonzalez’s ‘07 congressional testimony

    I don’t recall Gonzalez ever giving testimony.

  21. 21.

    Dreggas

    January 2, 2008 at 1:29 pm

    Michael D. Says:

    Not as lame as a movie starring Fabio featuring the music of Kenny G and/or Zamfir accompanied by Yanni.

  22. 22.

    OxyCon

    January 2, 2008 at 1:30 pm

    I like Carrot Top and I’m not ashamed to admit it (especially while posting under a ficticious name).

  23. 23.

    4tehlulz

    January 2, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    >>Chris Says:

    I see what you did there.

  24. 24.

    myiq2xu

    January 2, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    Didn’t Michael D. like Starship Troopers? That’s a pretty abominable movie.

    Not nearly as bad as ST II.

    ST I woulda been better if they woulda shown Denise’s funbags instead of Dina’s.

  25. 25.

    Punchy

    January 2, 2008 at 1:34 pm

    Carrot Top

    As Demi would agree, FAU’s most famous alumi. Which is really disturbing, of course.

  26. 26.

    dnA

    January 2, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    What about Crystal Pepsi, Neo-Geo, Tupac Shakur’s posthumous releases, LA Lights sneakers and “A Thousand Points Of Light?”

    Those were all pretty lame.

  27. 27.

    myiq2xu

    January 2, 2008 at 1:36 pm

    As for lame movies, Anaconda was egregiously bad.

  28. 28.

    sglover

    January 2, 2008 at 1:39 pm

    You’re not nearly as lame as any Irwin Allen production.

    In contrast, “Lost in Space” looks positively clairvoyent compared to Rupert Murdoch’s lapdog, smilin’ Billy Kristol.

  29. 29.

    Svensker

    January 2, 2008 at 1:39 pm

    Alberto Gonzalez’s ‘07 congressional testimony has got to have been the lamest thing ever. Balloon Juice is nowhere near that.

    It may be somewhere near Waterworld levels, though.

    Does “it” refer to AG or BJ? In any case, Waterworld cannot be considered lame. Highly amusing and/or annoying, yes. Lame, no.

  30. 30.

    Krista

    January 2, 2008 at 1:40 pm

    Yeah, Jen, it does sound like she’s saying “donuts”, so it’s not just you.

    Angry people who have nothing better to do than come to a site and bitch and moan about the proprietors and the commentors — now THAT’s lame. There’s only so much time in a day, so why spend so much of it reading that which you despise?

  31. 31.

    sglover

    January 2, 2008 at 1:41 pm

    Not as lame as a movie starring Fabio featuring the music of Kenny G and/or Zamfir.

    Jesus! That’s off the scale!

  32. 32.

    Chris

    January 2, 2008 at 1:42 pm

    Neo-Geo

    Good God, son, did you just dis SNK on teh intarlulz? That’s more egregious than defending Microsoft.

    I suggest taking a vacation in the Congo for a while.

  33. 33.

    John Cole

    January 2, 2008 at 1:42 pm

    This might explain some of our blog’s lameness, but I actually saw Carrot Top here at the University, and he was pretty god damned funny and the crowd loved him.

  34. 34.

    TheFountainHead

    January 2, 2008 at 1:43 pm

    It’s not as lame as Rudy’s campaign, but Lamer than Ron Paul’s. That MoFo has a blimp. Blimp > Hot Air Balloon.

  35. 35.

    bob

    January 2, 2008 at 1:45 pm

    To the Fabio/Kenny G extravaganza, add Thomas Kincade as Art Director.

  36. 36.

    Billy K

    January 2, 2008 at 1:46 pm

    Didn’t Michael D. like Starship Troopers? That’s a pretty abominable movie.

    Ooohhhhh…I hope you’re intentionally trolling. Starship Troopers is an awesome film. It has lots of things blowing up and a…message and stuff*. In fact, I referenced it justt he other day in a political argument (another site) about health care.

    You see, in Heinlein’s future, you only get full citizenship if you serve in the military. I noticed a parallel between this and the way our soldiers today can have quality socialized medicine, but we cannot.

    *It also has nudity, blood and guts everywhere, brain-sucking and gratuitous Michael Ironsides.

  37. 37.

    4tehlulz

    January 2, 2008 at 1:47 pm

    Damn antecedents. It = BJ….wait Balloon Juice.

    And Waterworld exhibits middling, some would say mediocre, levels of lame, similar to the Super Mario Brothers movie. It’s groan inducing and painful, and embarrassing for the parties involved, but not career killing.

    Heaven’s Gate OTOH, killed Michael Cimino’s career and United Artists with its lameness.

  38. 38.

    Billy K

    January 2, 2008 at 1:47 pm

    This might explain some of our blog’s lameness, but I actually saw Carrot Top here at the University, and he was pretty god damned funny and the crowd loved him.

    Wow. Cats lying with dogs. It’s raining frogs. Apocalypse is nigh.

  39. 39.

    myiq2xu

    January 2, 2008 at 1:48 pm

    Lamest car – A Geo Metro with sport rims.

    Don’t bother to lock it, no one will steal it.

  40. 40.

    Faux News

    January 2, 2008 at 1:48 pm

    Not as lame as a movie starring Fabio featuring the music of Kenny G and/or Zamfir.

    (Faux News reaches for the Crystal Meth pipe.Anything to stop the pain of that image)

  41. 41.

    demimondian

    January 2, 2008 at 1:48 pm

    I’m sorry, but you’re a failure lamer — this blog and its comments is no lamer than a pootie thread on dKos.

  42. 42.

    wasabi gasp

    January 2, 2008 at 1:52 pm

    Yeah. Lame.

    But, it gets counterbalanced by gay.

  43. 43.

    dnA

    January 2, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    Can we also add Warcraft 3 for having the same plot as Starcraft to this list?

    Further lameness:

    Shelby Steele
    Baja Fresh (Come on, just go to Chipotle)
    American Idol
    Carlos Mencia, stealer of jokes
    The Swing music craze of the late 90s
    John Stossel
    The Star Wars Prequels

  44. 44.

    Punchy

    January 2, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    This might explain some of our blog proprietor’s lameness, but I actually saw Carrot Top here at the University, and he was pretty god damned funny and the crowd loved him

    Fixed.

    If you’re all gunna go Lame Hall of Fame, can I nommy Ugg boots, vitamin water, and Ben Stiller?

  45. 45.

    Dracula

    January 2, 2008 at 1:57 pm

    a pootie thread

    Sounds like a tampon.

  46. 46.

    John S.

    January 2, 2008 at 1:57 pm

    Baja Fresh (Come on, just go to Chipotle)

    This is one of the sanest statements ever posted here.

  47. 47.

    4tehlulz

    January 2, 2008 at 2:00 pm

    Since someone brought up the respective lameness of Paul’s and Rudy!’s campaigns, I would like to present the following:

    The best news I’ve seen out of Iowa so far is that Rudy Giuliani appears set to finish behind Ron Paul.

  48. 48.

    John S.

    January 2, 2008 at 2:01 pm

    I noticed a parallel between this and the way our soldiers today can have quality socialized medicine, but we cannot.

    And don’t forget the strange parallel wherein our resident military man, Cassidy, has an overblown superiority complex over the inferior civilians that pay his salary.

  49. 49.

    demimondian

    January 2, 2008 at 2:02 pm

    This year’s Republican field is lamer than a thalidomide elephant.

  50. 50.

    Chris

    January 2, 2008 at 2:04 pm

    Lamer than John Cole’s blog:

    Donald Trump
    Donald Trump marrying girl that wins one of his competitions
    People that think Donald Trump is more than just a pre-ordained real-estate investor.

    (I have to walk through the throngs of the heaving masses outside Trump Tower everyday just to get to work, lunch, dinner, home. Grr.)

  51. 51.

    myiq2xu

    January 2, 2008 at 2:04 pm

    Baja Fresh (Come on, just go to Chipotle)

    If you’re buying “Mexican” food at a restaurant owned and operated by non-Mexicans, you’re not buying Mexican food. Just because the employees are Mexican doesn’t make it authentic, otherwise Mickey D’s would be Mexican too.

    That includes Taco Bell, Carls Jr, Del Taco, Jack-in-the-Crotch and El Pollo Loco.

  52. 52.

    myiq2xu

    January 2, 2008 at 2:07 pm

    If you’re all gunna go Lame Hall of Fame, can I nommy Ugg boots, vitamin water, and Ben Stiller?

    C’mon now, Ben was great in Something About Mary!

    Beans and franks, beans and franks!

  53. 53.

    norbizness

    January 2, 2008 at 2:12 pm

    “Here’s a rearview mirror for your toilet for when y’all pass gas! Hya-hah-hah!” — David Cross as ‘Blueberry Head.’

  54. 54.

    Davebo

    January 2, 2008 at 2:13 pm

    Lamest car – A Geo Metro with sport rims.

    No way. Lamest car, any (preferably Japanese built) front wheel drive car with a giant wing on the trunk deck.

    And dude, that big ass muffler you put on the back of your 92 Civic doesn’t make it faster, just more annoying.

  55. 55.

    Jake

    January 2, 2008 at 2:14 pm

    Not as lame as a movie starring Fabio featuring the music of Kenny G and/or Zamfir.

    M.D., you fucking sadist!

  56. 56.

    Faux News

    January 2, 2008 at 2:20 pm

    Right now the radio is playing Dan Hill’s song:

    “Sometimes when we touch”…the honesty is too much…

    (reaches for crack pipe again)

  57. 57.

    myiq2xu

    January 2, 2008 at 2:25 pm

    Right now the radio is playing Dan Hill’s song:

    “Sometimes when we touch”…the honesty is too much…

    Another reason to hate the “70’s” (aka The Cultural Nadir of Western Civilization)

  58. 58.

    TheFountainHead

    January 2, 2008 at 2:26 pm

    Since this is an open thread, why has this bit of oddity not been mentioned yet?

  59. 59.

    guyermo

    January 2, 2008 at 2:27 pm

    This blog is the Encino Man of blogs

  60. 60.

    myiq2xu

    January 2, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    Since this is an open thread, why has this bit of oddity not been mentioned yet?

    Cuz we haven’t had enough to drink yet?

    I’m hoping alcohol will help me understand how the most flaming liberal on the Democratic side picked Mr. Republican-Lite to endorse.

  61. 61.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    January 2, 2008 at 2:34 pm

    You see, in Heinlein’s future, you only get full citizenship if you serve in the military. I noticed a parallel between this and the way our soldiers today can have quality socialized medicine, but we cannot

    .

    Walter Reed. Quality?

  62. 62.

    dnA

    January 2, 2008 at 2:34 pm

    If you’re buying “Mexican” food at a restaurant owned and operated by non-Mexicans, you’re not buying Mexican food. Just because the employees are Mexican doesn’t make it authentic, otherwise Mickey D’s would be Mexican too.

    Yeah, but at least Chipotle in DC and New York uses organic food.

  63. 63.

    AkaDad

    January 2, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    It’s certainly not as lame as my sex life.

  64. 64.

    Chris

    January 2, 2008 at 2:36 pm

    Mr. Republican-Lite

    I still can’t figure out why functionally intelligent people are still insisting he’s only capable of operating on the left-right axis when his entire campaign is about not operating on it.

    Obama: “I don’t believe in Left or Right”
    Others: “Therefore you’re a centrist!”

    /me headpalm

  65. 65.

    myiq2xu

    January 2, 2008 at 2:37 pm

    Since this is an open thread, why has this bit of oddity not been mentioned yet?

    BTW – kos “unendorsed” Obama yesterday.

  66. 66.

    TheFountainHead

    January 2, 2008 at 2:38 pm

    I’m hoping alcohol will help me understand how the most flaming liberal on the Democratic side picked Mr. Republican-Lite to endorse.

    I agree, I never would have thunk it, but perhaps Dennis knows/sees something we don’t?

  67. 67.

    myiq2xu

    January 2, 2008 at 2:39 pm

    You see, in Heinlein’s future, you only get full citizenship if you serve in the military.

    So would Chimpy be a full citizen or not?

    His boss would not, cuz he had “other priorities.”

  68. 68.

    TheFountainHead

    January 2, 2008 at 2:40 pm

    Kos is a sad sad place where only the people of very little intellect and very large axes to grind go. I like to think of them as Dwarves from Lord of the Rings: dangerous, but mostly there for comic relief.

  69. 69.

    Chris

    January 2, 2008 at 2:45 pm

    myiq2xu Says:

    You see, in Heinlein’s future, you only get full citizenship if you serve in the military.

    So would Chimpy be a full citizen or not?

    Only Alabama citizenship. And he would deserve every bit of them, and they him.

  70. 70.

    Punchy

    January 2, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    BTW – kos “unendorsed” Obama yesterday.

    There isn’t a yawn big enough to fully demonstrate my response to this “news”….

  71. 71.

    LiberalTarian

    January 2, 2008 at 2:50 pm

    Ben Stiller’s Heartbreak Kid was painfully lame, but I guess it was saved from terminal lameness by the jellyfish/ring piercing scene. I think I blew soda outa my nose.

    But, still lame lame lame. I had to stop dating the guy that took me to that movie–it was his second chance at a movie, and his first was Good Luck Chuck. Arg. How do movies *get* that lame????

    Just say no to lame movies and men who think they would work on a date.

  72. 72.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    January 2, 2008 at 2:53 pm

    TPM is reporting that Ron Paul may finish third in Iowa. (Ahead of Rudy!) So whose head explodes first? Someone at Fox? Red State? Where?

    I say we start a pool. Damn! I can’t wait to read the news Friday morning.

  73. 73.

    ThymeZone

    January 2, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    This might explain some of our blog’s lameness, but I actually saw Carrot Top here at the University, and he was pretty god damned funny and the crowd loved him.

    But, it’s West Virginia. (Don’t lash out at me, this is protected speech).

    I have tried to think of the lamest thing I can come up with. So far this is what I have:

    Nancy Reagan

    Phyllis Schlafly

    The Wire (again, protected speech)

    The combination telephone/clock radio

    Singing Fish

    A “How Stuff Works” page about Singing Fish
    Don Surber

  74. 74.

    myiq2xu

    January 2, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    Kos is a sad sad place where only the people of very little intellect and very large axes to grind go.

    Bill! Howyabeen? How are things at the “Factor?”

    Got any new “loofah” stories?

  75. 75.

    Ed Drone

    January 2, 2008 at 3:00 pm

    “Lamest car – A Geo Metro with sport rims.

    Don’t bother to lock it, no one will steal it.”

    Wrong! Some people will steal anything — just look at the 2000 election!

    Ed

  76. 76.

    Robert Johnston

    January 2, 2008 at 3:00 pm

    Mr. Republican-Lite

    I still can’t figure out why functionally intelligent people are still insisting he’s only capable of operating on the left-right axis when his entire campaign is about not operating on it.

    Obama: “I don’t believe in Left or Right”
    Others: “Therefore you’re a centrist!”

    Because the meme that bipartisanship is an inherent good, that you can avoid making a choice between the parties and find common ground, is in this day and age itself a right-wing meme. The middle ground between center/center-right (Democrats) and batshit crazy (Republicans) is old fashioned right-wing extremism.

    Giving succor to those who would blow up Social Security by talking of fake crisis is right wing extremism.

    Universal health without universality is right wing extremism.

    Blaming Democratic losses on the party being too liberal when it’s more conservative than Nixon’s Republican party is right wing extremism.

  77. 77.

    Jen

    January 2, 2008 at 3:02 pm

    Getting “freedom frostbite” campaigning in Iowa for Ron Paul over Christmas….
    Lame…
    But I am glad. I have a soft spot for him since I saw his blimp.

  78. 78.

    TheFountainHead

    January 2, 2008 at 3:02 pm

    Bill! Howyabeen? How are things at the “Factor?”

    Got any new “loofah” stories?

    That cuts deep. Real deep.

    Just because Bill was/is a pompous ASS with the Kos people, that doesn’t make them above reproach or even enlightened. That’s like arguing, “Well, the dog wouldn’t eat his own shit, so I’m sure we’ll find it mmm-mmm Goood!”

  79. 79.

    Jen

    January 2, 2008 at 3:03 pm

    Are you in WV, John? Planning a trip to Winterplace later this month, chosen for its mutual convenience. Is the skiing any good there?

  80. 80.

    myiq2xu

    January 2, 2008 at 3:03 pm

    Speaking of BillO. isn’t the opposite of “secular progressive” “religious regressive?”

  81. 81.

    myiq2xu

    January 2, 2008 at 3:05 pm

    The middle ground between center/center-right (Democrats) and batshit crazy (Republicans) is old fashioned right-wing extremism.

    Confucius say: “He who straddle fence end up with fence post up his ass.”

  82. 82.

    ThymeZone

    January 2, 2008 at 3:06 pm

    Kos is a sad sad place where only the people of very little intellect and very large axes to grind go.

    Well, if nearly a million page views a day fits that description, sure.

  83. 83.

    peach flavored shampoo

    January 2, 2008 at 3:06 pm

    I think a guy with a broken foot is pretty lame

  84. 84.

    Chris Johnson

    January 2, 2008 at 3:11 pm

    This place got lamer when it added Michael. I don’t see the need for the pseudo-republican dumbass responding to argument with ad hominem and bluster. His only saving grace to me is the way he posts environmental/tech threads, but he only does it for attention.

  85. 85.

    demimondian

    January 2, 2008 at 3:14 pm

    isn’t the opposite of “secular progressive” “religious regressive?”

    No. The opposite of “secular progressive” is “infernal fool”.

  86. 86.

    TheFountainHead

    January 2, 2008 at 3:15 pm

    Well, if nearly a million page views a day fits that description, sure.

    Surely you aren’t making the argument that popularity is equal to quality and veracity, are you? I mean, how many pageviews does youporn.com get in a day???

  87. 87.

    Jen

    January 2, 2008 at 3:16 pm

    Flame wars over early 90’s computer technology…lame….do not want….
    chili recipes, links to weird things, and snark…..very nice.

  88. 88.

    Bombadil

    January 2, 2008 at 3:17 pm

    isn’t the opposite of “secular progressive” “religious regressive?”

    No. The opposite of “secular progressive” is “infernal fool”.

    To-may-to, to-mah-to….

  89. 89.

    Bombadil

    January 2, 2008 at 3:18 pm

    Surely you aren’t making the argument that popularity is equal to quality and veracity, are you? I mean, how many pageviews does youporn.com get in a day???

    Counting yours?

  90. 90.

    RSA

    January 2, 2008 at 3:20 pm

    A “How Stuff Works” page about Singing Fish

    A bunch of people in my computer science department know the founder of howstuffworks.com; he got an M.S. here and was an adjunct for a few years (probably still is). The latest news is that he’s sold his company for $250 million. Who’d have thought?

  91. 91.

    Punchy

    January 2, 2008 at 3:21 pm

    Flame wars over early 90’s computer technology…lame….do not want….
    chili recipes, links to weird things, and snark…..very nice.

    Jesus, TZ bitches about everything… :)

  92. 92.

    Jake

    January 2, 2008 at 3:22 pm

    Heinlein’s future

    What is: Nauseating concepts?

  93. 93.

    TheFountainHead

    January 2, 2008 at 3:23 pm

    Counting yours?

    Once you’re there, why leave and come back!!?? ;)

  94. 94.

    myiq2xu

    January 2, 2008 at 3:23 pm

    A bunch of people in my computer science department know the founder of howstuffworks.com; he got an M.S. here and was an adjunct for a few years (probably still is). The latest news is that he’s sold his company for $250 million. Who’d have thought?

    I’ll wager more than one person laughed at him, and now he’s laughing all the way to . . . well, you know.

  95. 95.

    Jen

    January 2, 2008 at 3:26 pm

    I’m going to make you a punch-y of lambic and champagne, just for that.

  96. 96.

    dnA

    January 2, 2008 at 3:26 pm

    Too bad Mr. “Republican Lite” has the most liberal voting record in the Senate among the frontrunners and brags about how bad he wants to “whoop” the other side.

    Is it really that complex? No black man could run for president sounding like John Edwards. But Obama will smile in their faces and kneecap them when they’re not looking…and they’ll never see it coming.

    What will Edwards do? Judging by his record, he’ll talk mad shit and fold when it’s time to put his money where his mouth is.

  97. 97.

    Z

    January 2, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    Partial lame list:

    1) Sweatpants with large letters across the butt
    2) ED drug commercials
    3) People who worship Foucault
    4) Using the word ‘patina’ to describe anything but a finish
    5) The neoconservative view that democracy ‘just happens’

  98. 98.

    canuckistani

    January 2, 2008 at 3:29 pm

    “Lamest car – A Geo Metro with sport rims.

    Don’t bother to lock it, no one will steal it.”

    Someone might throw up in it.

    The goon who brought up Dan Hill deserves a boot to the head for starting a train of thought that led to Debbie Gibson, and “You Light Up My Life”. I went through that in the 70’s damnit. Why has His Noodliness forsaken me?

  99. 99.

    Chris

    January 2, 2008 at 3:32 pm

    I still can’t figure out why functionally intelligent people are still insisting he’s only capable of operating on the left-right axis when his entire campaign is about not operating on it.

    Obama: “I don’t believe in Left or Right”
    Others: “Therefore you’re a centrist!”

    Because the meme that bipartisanship is an inherent good, that you can avoid making a choice between the parties and find common ground, is in this day and age itself a right-wing meme. The middle ground between center/center-right (Democrats) and batshit crazy (Republicans) is old fashioned right-wing extremism.

    Giving succor to those who would blow up Social Security by talking of fake crisis is right wing extremism.

    Universal health without universality is right wing extremism.

    Blaming Democratic losses on the party being too liberal when it’s more conservative than Nixon’s Republican party is right wing extremism.

    /me repeat headpalm

    Is it at all fathomable to people that left-right is a completely invented, relative scale, and serves no purpose beyond mapping the relationships beyond arguments?

    If telling someone that something is right wing or left wing gets their blood pressure up, then they aren’t operating on a sensible wavelength.

    I’m going to take a risk and posit that arguments against a policy should be based on empirical data, and not fuzzy perceptions on which way a car can turn.

    I know this is groundbreaking, so I’ll give you a moment to take that in.

  100. 100.

    mitch

    January 2, 2008 at 3:36 pm

    How can you diss Neo-Geo? If you don’t like Samurai Shodown, you are officially dumb.

  101. 101.

    Anne Laurie

    January 2, 2008 at 3:40 pm

    Wow. Cats lying with dogs…

    My 17-pound dog is trying to get the 10-pound Maine Coon cat to play “tug” with him. This is not the first time he has tried this, and it will not be the last. Maine Coon nominates Dog as the Lamest of All Lame Things.

    Of course, she hasn’t read Jonah Goldberg’s book, which achieves depths of Lame-ness beyond even Marie Osmond’s performance on “Dancing with the Stars”.

  102. 102.

    ThymeZone

    January 2, 2008 at 3:41 pm

    Debbie Gibson, and “You Light Up My Life”.

    Well, that’s nothing. How about Vikki Carr and “It Must Be Him?”

    Now we’re talking some serious pull-fingernails-out-with pliers lame.

  103. 103.

    Chris

    January 2, 2008 at 3:41 pm

    Is it at all fathomable to people that left-right is a completely invented, relative scale, and serves no purpose beyond mapping the relationships between arguments?

    Fixed. I blame myself.

  104. 104.

    Cassidy

    January 2, 2008 at 3:42 pm

    You see, in Heinlein’s future, you only get full citizenship if you serve in the military.

    IIRC, it was public service that earned citizenship and military service was the quickest route. Sounds pretty ideal. Privileges are always more appreciated when you have to work for them a little.

    I noticed a parallel between this and the way our soldiers today can have quality socialized medicine, but we cannot.

    Our HMO is so much better. Seriously, look at how little we get paid, compared to what we do….if it was easy or desirable, everyone would do it. That’s a benefit earned.

    And don’t forget the strange parallel wherein our resident military man, Cassidy, has an overblown superiority complex over the inferior civilians that pay his salary.

    Wah, wah, wah…I don’t like civilians. Get a frickin’ helmet. And drop that “pay my salary” shit. The pendulum of giving swung to our side a long time ago. We don’t owe you shit.

  105. 105.

    dnA

    January 2, 2008 at 3:48 pm

    How can you diss Neo-Geo? If you don’t like Samurai Shodown, you are officially dumb.

    What are you if you can’t spell it?

  106. 106.

    Dreggas

    January 2, 2008 at 3:48 pm

    A bright ray of hope in the lameness

    Oh and as far as Obama goes, seems to me hillary is getting a bit worried, now Obama != Osama, Obama == Bush/Republicans nice how that one came about. Of course universal health care doesn’t mean mandated health insurance ala mandated car insurance.

    What are we going to do start fining people who don’t have insurance like we do those without car insurance? Maybe lock them up and make them criminals as well?

    Of course there is the alternative John – Populism is great once I found it in ’04 – Edwards who was, yes, a trial lawyer making a heckuva lot of money not standing up for the little guy but for his law firm that took on these cases.

    I do find it funny that in another time Hillary and Edwards would be on opposite sides of the court room, her defending the corporation and him suing it, yet here they are vying for the nomination by the same party. But we are the big tent, however this scary guy Obama who talks about *gasp* uniting America, kinda like who was it…oh John Kerry did in ’04 is bad.

    Given what the polls are saying (that is Obama ahead of both edwards and Hillary) I am beginning to think maybe Iowans do know what they’re doing (though I disagreed with the ’04 choice) when it comes to the first primary.

  107. 107.

    Dreggas

    January 2, 2008 at 3:51 pm

    And from the beast’s top list:

    17. Hillary Clinton

    Charges: Began in politics as a teenage Nixon supporter — that’s twisted. Moved on to corporate law, representing Wal-Mart and bravely defending Coca-Cola from disabled employees. Married out of ambition. Failed miserably as the first lady of health care. Has spent whole of senatorial career as a hawk and a panderer. Would have no shot at becoming president if she didn’t just happen to be married to one already.

    Exhibit A: Has deftly avoided the flip-flopper label — by never, ever answering a question directly or committing to a position in the first place.

    Sentence: Victim of vast right wing conspiracy to shove a brick up her ass.

  108. 108.

    myiq2xu

    January 2, 2008 at 4:01 pm

    Debbie Gibson, and “You Light Up My Life”.

    You’re thinking of Debbie Boone – and that horrible song from 1978.

    Debbie Gibson was a Pop Hottie from the 80’s.

  109. 109.

    Johnny Pez

    January 2, 2008 at 4:02 pm

    This blog is the Ishtar of blogs.

  110. 110.

    myiq2xu

    January 2, 2008 at 4:06 pm

    This blog is the Ishtar of blogs.

    We have a weiner!

  111. 111.

    bartkid

    January 2, 2008 at 4:07 pm

    >>Alberto Gonzalez’s ‘07 congressional testimony
    >I don’t recall Gonzalez ever giving testimony.
    I don’t recall Gonzalez.

  112. 112.

    Dreggas

    January 2, 2008 at 4:11 pm

    And hey no bagging on NeoGeo, after all king of the monsters was fun!

  113. 113.

    Tax Analyst

    January 2, 2008 at 4:12 pm

    This thread has me craving another “Crock Pot” thread.

  114. 114.

    dnA

    January 2, 2008 at 4:16 pm

    Wow, I’m impressed by the amount of people here who even REMEMBER Neo-Geo.

  115. 115.

    canuckistani

    January 2, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    You’re thinking of Debbie Boone – and that horrible song from 1978.

    Debbie Gibson was a Pop Hottie from the 80’s.

    It was Debbie Boone. You’re right, but there are times when I’m not ashamed to be wrong.

  116. 116.

    Punchy

    January 2, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    Hey Dregs, whatz up wichore blog last being updated in June?

  117. 117.

    Ed Drone

    January 2, 2008 at 4:18 pm

    “My 17-pound dog is trying to get the 10-pound Maine Coon cat to play “tug” with him.”

    Dang, that’s a small Maine Coon. Our two (a sister and brother) — not yet full-grown — are 18 and 20 lbs., and the new dog weighs in at 22 lbs (at 6 mos, so he’ll grow about another 10 lbs). That said, the Coon cats do sort of lord it over the other cats and the dog. For feistiness, though, the Manx, at 7 lbs, stands up for herself pretty well, and is the most willing to play ‘chase me’ with the Corgi pup.

    It’s going to be an interesting next year or so, as they work out their dominance issues.

    Ed

  118. 118.

    Zifnab

    January 2, 2008 at 4:25 pm

    And hey no bagging on NeoGeo, after all king of the monsters was fun!

    woot!

    And from the beast’s top list:

    17. Hillary Clinton

    Charges: Began in politics as a teenage Nixon supporter—that’s twisted. Moved on to corporate law, representing Wal-Mart and bravely defending Coca-Cola from disabled employees. Married out of ambition. Failed miserably as the first lady of health care. Has spent whole of senatorial career as a hawk and a panderer. Would have no shot at becoming president if she didn’t just happen to be married to one already.

    Exhibit A: Has deftly avoided the flip-flopper label—by never, ever answering a question directly or committing to a position in the first place.

    Sentence: Victim of vast right wing conspiracy to shove a brick up her ass.

    Yes, that’s right. For those of you still not paying attention HILLARY CLINTON IS CONSERVATIVE! She’s just better at being conservative than Bush/DeLay/Frist/et al, because she’s not a third-generation spawn of a kleptocrat douchebag who bought her way in on day’s name (she’s first generation kleptocrat douchbag who married her way in on her husband’s name).

    No matter what Rush or Hannity or Mathews or – hell, even Tom Brochaw – tells you, Hillary Clinton is a dyed-in-the-wool Republican. Just because the Republicans hate her, doesn’t make her policies any more liberal.

  119. 119.

    LiberalTarian

    January 2, 2008 at 4:29 pm

    Navel lint. This thread.

  120. 120.

    Dreggas

    January 2, 2008 at 4:34 pm

    Punchy Says:

    Hey Dregs, whatz up wichore blog last being updated in June?

    I know, I need to get back on that but I usually come here and find it pretty well covered. Add to that the fact I get home and between feeding myself and rescuing my sanity by playing guild wars I am usually preoccupied. I used to be able to blog from work but they blocked it.

  121. 121.

    Z

    January 2, 2008 at 4:34 pm

    Partial nerd lame list:

    1) Playing a paladin in DnD
    2) Windows operating system
    3) Not indenting code
    4) Video game walkthroughs
    5) Mathematics professors writing tests that only one person in the class is even able to finish

  122. 122.

    Dreggas

    January 2, 2008 at 4:35 pm

    dnA Says:

    Wow, I’m impressed by the amount of people here who even REMEMBER Neo-Geo.

    Dude NeoGeo was the shiznit. There’s even a hamburger joint near my place that has a mini-arcade inside and they have one!

  123. 123.

    Chris

    January 2, 2008 at 4:36 pm

    Wow, I’m impressed by the amount of people here who even REMEMBER Neo-Geo.

    They’re either just about to release, or already have released, the new King of Fighters. The Neo-geo legacy is still around

  124. 124.

    Billy K

    January 2, 2008 at 5:02 pm

    Partial nerd lame list:

    1) Playing a paladin in DnD

    Ha! But how many people actually PLAYED a Paladin? They all wanted the exceptional fighting skill, but forgot that playing a Paladin didn’t just mean a Lawful Good Fighter. It was actually a very difficult class, and that’s why most DMs my, er “friend” knew, wouldn’t allow them. I mean, they just didn’t fit in with most groups. If…my friend…recalls correctly, you weren’t even allowed to have a thief and a Paladin in your group due to his code of ethics!

  125. 125.

    canuckistani

    January 2, 2008 at 5:02 pm

    1) Playing a paladin in DnD

    A friend of mine played a Paladin in my campaign as a hard-assed fundamentalist psychopath who had to be given written absolution by his priest for not killing party members of differing alignments/faiths. He stirred up more fun/shit than any other character I’d ever seen.

  126. 126.

    myiq2xu

    January 2, 2008 at 5:07 pm

    1) Playing a paladin in DnD

    I’ve never seen so may Jack Palance fans in my life.

    What’s DnD mean?

  127. 127.

    Cassidy

    January 2, 2008 at 5:13 pm

    What’s DnD mean?

    = I didn’t start dating until college.

  128. 128.

    Billy K

    January 2, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    What’s DnD mean?

    = I didn’t start dating until college.

    It literally stands for Do Not Date, right?

  129. 129.

    Z

    January 2, 2008 at 5:19 pm

    OK, canuck, if I had played in a group with a guy like that, it would have been awesome. Instead, the paladin player I knew had a knight-in-shining-armor complex.

    And Billy K, you are right! He didn’t fit in with the group! Our DM should have kicked him out, like your uh… friend.

  130. 130.

    Z

    January 2, 2008 at 5:25 pm

    It literally stands for Do Not Date, right?

    In practice, if not in fact. Although, as a nerd girl, I had lots of offers from nerd boys. Pity I wasn’t interested in boys.

  131. 131.

    Zifnab

    January 2, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    Cassidy Says:

    What’s DnD mean?

    = I didn’t start dating until college.

    Cassidy is just jealous cause he never got any action from the hot goth chicks.

  132. 132.

    John S.

    January 2, 2008 at 5:49 pm

    And drop that “pay my salary” shit. The pendulum of giving swung to our side a long time ago. We don’t owe you shit.

    Classic.

    So the military gives the average American more than they give to the military? Is this in terms of dollars or magic ponies?

    And who exactly does pay your salary, if not the American citizens you have so much scorn for? Do your checks from the Department of Defense? Where do they get their funding from?

    John Cole really said it best:

    When did you assholes start to think you can talk to civilians like you are better than them? Seriously? This is one fat lazy civilian who like to punch you in your fat mouth, you self-centered, holier-than-thou piece of shit. Thanks for your service, but you volunteered. Now shut the fuck up and quit acting better than your fellow citizens.

  133. 133.

    Dreggas

    January 2, 2008 at 5:51 pm

    Zifnab Says:

    Cassidy Says:

    What’s DnD mean?

    = I didn’t start dating until college.

    Cassidy is just jealous cause he never got any action from the hot goth chicks.

    And for the record Goth chicks are indeed, for the most part, extremely hot but what can I say I am biased.

  134. 134.

    Dreggas

    January 2, 2008 at 6:02 pm

    Z Says:

    OK, canuck, if I had played in a group with a guy like that, it would have been awesome. Instead, the paladin player I knew had a knight-in-shining-armor complex.

    And Billy K, you are right! He didn’t fit in with the group! Our DM should have kicked him out, like your uh… friend.

    Oh we had the answer for paladins, it was called Ravenloft. That or quick, brutal death at the hands of an NPC simply because other members of the party did want to kill him.

  135. 135.

    Chris

    January 2, 2008 at 6:10 pm

    Wah, wah, wah…I don’t like civilians. Get a frickin’ helmet. And drop that “pay my salary” shit. The pendulum of giving swung to our side a long time ago. We don’t owe you shit.

    Awww, how cuuuuuuute. He doesn’t like civilians, but he wants to play with them on the googletubes. He’s just like a puppy that nips at your heels.

    awwwww.

  136. 136.

    Z

    January 2, 2008 at 6:20 pm

    Dreggas,

    I had my answer too… his magical stuff kept disappearing… And who knows how? I mean it wasn’t like I was a thief or anything!?!

  137. 137.

    myiq2xu

    January 2, 2008 at 6:34 pm

    C

    assidy is just jealous cause he never got any action from the hot goth chicks.

    Remember Hopalong, “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”

  138. 138.

    Michael D.

    January 2, 2008 at 6:34 pm

    Ooohhhhh…I hope you’re intentionally trolling. Starship Troopers is an awesome film. It has lots of things blowing up and a…message and stuff

    Would you like to know more?

  139. 139.

    D-Chance.

    January 2, 2008 at 6:37 pm

    Lame: Sonic Drive-In commercials. I want mob hits on both of those couples who engage in those unfunny ‘conversations’ in the front seats of their cars while wolfing down greasy fried stuff and ice cream product.

    Lame: Time to break out the election cliches. “Deciding the fate of the entire world”, “most important election of our time (well, since the 2006 elections, which were the most important elections of our time, not counting the 2004 elections, which were the most important elections of our time, except for the 2002 elections, etc, etc, etc)” and Wolfie managed to get both phrases out in one sentence this afternoon. Someone start a whisper campaign around the CNN newsroom that Blitz is really Mexican… maybe Dobbs will get wind of it, kidnap him, and drive him across the border.

  140. 140.

    demimondian

    January 2, 2008 at 6:52 pm

    A…friend of mine…played a pure Orc paladin who didn’t know he was a paladin.

    The best thing about this character was that he could tell literal truths that everybody would take completely wrong. “Oh, the girl who saw all that? Yes, you said Morque, take care of her…so Morque took REALLY good care of her. She won’t be back.”

    Morque had arranged for her to go to school out of the city. But when an eight-foot-tall orc says that to your character, that’s certainly not what your character expects.

  141. 141.

    Tamsyn

    January 2, 2008 at 6:55 pm

    Jen – she’s adorable, and it does sound like donuts!

  142. 142.

    Darkness

    January 2, 2008 at 7:08 pm

    Hillary Clinton certainly is a conservative, way more than her supporters would ever allow themselves to acknowledge. In fact, I shut up someone rarin’ up for a diatribe they were sure I’d feel the need to defend the other side of by saying, “yeah, she’s a right wing nutcase…. but, you were saying?” Snicker.

    Ah, this year is certainly starting out well. Michigan proved that dynasty and spirit trump hype and hyperbole. Despite the pain of watching them repeatedly try to give the game back to Florida (heSUS h. anthony carter on a pogo stick!) it was a win worthy of the long, long walk down the beach on a twisted knee, sprained ankle and toe, even, to get to Tequila Willy’s, the only bar on the bay with a working satellite receiver.

  143. 143.

    Billy K

    January 2, 2008 at 7:38 pm

    Oh we had the answer for paladins, it was called Ravenloft.

    Holy crap! That was my favorite module! My friend, etc…

  144. 144.

    ThymeZone

    January 2, 2008 at 7:46 pm

    Someone start a whisper campaign around the CNN newsroom that Blitz is really Mexican… maybe Dobbs will get wind of it, kidnap him, and drive him across the border.

    I don’t want to do anything to encourage either one of those two gasbags.

  145. 145.

    Dreggas

    January 2, 2008 at 7:49 pm

    Z Says:

    Dreggas,

    I had my answer too… his magical stuff kept disappearing… And who knows how? I mean it wasn’t like I was a thief or anything

    Oh those were the best. Have a thief in the party who was NG or CG so that even the paladin’s super alignment sniffer malfunctioned and chaos ensues.

  146. 146.

    Dreggas

    January 2, 2008 at 7:53 pm

    Billy K Says:

    Oh we had the answer for paladins, it was called Ravenloft.

    Holy crap! That was my favorite module! My friend, etc…

    I had the original, softcover laying around somewhere. They re-did it in hard cover for 3.5 edition which I was so happy to find. However I am not talking the module, I meant the campaign setting.

    It was the ultimate in gothic horror with barovia at the center and it was the demi-plane of dread. From the lich Azalin’s province to one for Lord Soth from Dragonlance as well as a frankenstein province, a province for a mummy lord, one for a were-wolf. That campaign setting, for sheer atmosphere was the one of the very few good things to come out of the steaming shitpile that was AD&D 2nd edition.

  147. 147.

    Dreggas

    January 2, 2008 at 7:55 pm

    demimondian Says:

    A…friend of mine…played a pure Orc paladin who didn’t know he was a paladin.

    The best thing about this character was that he could tell literal truths that everybody would take completely wrong. “Oh, the girl who saw all that? Yes, you said Morque, take care of her…so Morque took REALLY good care of her. She won’t be back.”

    Morque had arranged for her to go to school out of the city. But when an eight-foot-tall orc says that to your character, that’s certainly not what your character expects.

    You played the orc admit it.

    My favorite character was how I got my nickname of Dreggas, he was none too nice…to put it mildly. However my one friends sister had one of the more amusing characters in our campaigns, a dwarven warrior who was CE and a were-badger to boot. In other words the ‘tude was all in the size.

  148. 148.

    Cassidy

    January 2, 2008 at 7:56 pm

    Cassidy is just jealous cause he never got any action from the hot goth chicks.

    I don’t do gloom cookies. All that angst ridden moping was annoying. Punks and skaters are the way to go.

    John Cole really said it best:

    Blah, blah, blah…I’m thinking someone needs a swimming lesson.

  149. 149.

    Asti

    January 2, 2008 at 9:18 pm

    Singing Fish

    OMG, it’s the Incredible Mr. Limpett

  150. 150.

    Dreggas

    January 2, 2008 at 9:25 pm

    Cassidy Says:

    Cassidy is just jealous cause he never got any action from the hot goth chicks.

    I don’t do gloom cookies. All that angst ridden moping was annoying. Punks and skaters are the way to go.

    Ya know, I don’t know many “gloom cookies” maybe you’re thinkin of emo chicks and yeah, there’s a group I just don’t get. I’ve run the gauntlet and honestly it’s the goth chicks that do it for me. Then again I am pierced, painted, and quite happily depraved enough that if I wind up bleeing a little it’s a feature, not a bug.

  151. 151.

    Dreggas

    January 2, 2008 at 9:26 pm

    Dracula Says:

    a pootie thread

    Sounds like a tampon.

    having tea are we?

  152. 152.

    demimondian

    January 2, 2008 at 9:33 pm

    You played the orc admit it.

    What makes you think that?

    My..uhh…friend had a lot of fun with this character. He could, of course, bring light (seeing as how he was a paladin and all, you know.) But seeing that he was an Orc, he viewed this ability as a curse, not a blessing. Similarly, his ability to dispel evil had made him a pariah in his original tribe.

    And let’s not get into his odd affection for bunnies. One Did Not Serve Morque rabbit stew. It Was Not Done.

  153. 153.

    Jen

    January 2, 2008 at 10:00 pm

    Thanks, Tamsyn, I think she’s adorable too. And my boy, too, but he doesn’t do as many cute toddler things anymore.

  154. 154.

    Anne Laurie

    January 2, 2008 at 10:23 pm

    Dang, that’s a small Maine Coon.

    And a very large (rescue) Papillon. Demon Kishkan is not, to say the least, pedigreed — but she has all the Trademarks of the breed, including the ear-tufts as well as the attitude issues. Here in the Northeast, the shelters are full of randombred ‘Maine Coons’, many of them larger than Kishkan but nowhere near the size your pedigreed housemates have been bred to. (Obviously the MC genes confer some kind of selective advantage in this environment.) We are the Demon’s third family, that we know of; we inherited her from friends who were moving to Europe ‘temporarily’ six years ago. But when she’d chosen those friends to adopt by force of will (they ‘didn’t like’ cats but she kept darting into their house whenever they opened a door or window), she’d already been neutered, presumably by a human family she found unworthy of her talents. She does not consider us worthy, either, but during her occasional prohibited excursions around the neighborhood (there are too many predators in this urban-industrial-highway area, including foxes, racoons, and 18-wheelers) she’s apparently been unable to find a more promising pack of suckers servants. She even tried bribing the two nice guys who spent a week this summer replacing our exterior doors, but dead voles just don’t get enough respect in today’s economy. So she continues to lord it over the other two cats, ignores the girl dog (Buta Hime Sama), and uses the boy dog (Zevon) as a combination exercise device and stooge (she uses his weight to help her force open closed doors, for instance). She doesn’t mind playing tag with Zevon, if there’s nothing more interesting going on, but the hopeful way he prances up to her holding a drool-soaked sock — that’s just gross, there is NO WAY she would touch that thing!

  155. 155.

    Dreggas

    January 2, 2008 at 11:00 pm

    And let’s not get into his odd affection for bunnies. One Did Not Serve Morque rabbit stew. It Was Not Done.

    I will pet him and love him and squeeze him and call him george!

  156. 156.

    Dreggas

    January 2, 2008 at 11:04 pm

    Anne,

    In my experience with pure bread maine coons the females are a lot smaller than the males. We had 2 one male (a freaking ox of a cat) and a female. The female was definitely smaller.

  157. 157.

    Dreggas

    January 2, 2008 at 11:10 pm

    pure bred, not bread, can’t bake them…or maybe you can…

  158. 158.

    The Other Steve

    January 2, 2008 at 11:21 pm

    And drop that “pay my salary” shit. The pendulum of giving swung to our side a long time ago. We don’t owe you shit.

    The military hasn’t been relevant since my uncle came home from Okinawa on a C-47 transport.

  159. 159.

    myiq2xu

    January 3, 2008 at 8:30 am

    We get a thread discussing lameness and up pops Cassidey for the first time since John C opened a can O’ WhoopAss on him last week.

    Isn’t it ironic?

  160. 160.

    Cassidy

    January 3, 2008 at 10:54 am

    We get a thread discussing lameness and up pops Cassidey for the first time since John C opened a can O’ WhoopAss on him last week.

    If that’s your definition of whoop-ass, then you really are a pansy. Seriously, please tell me you don’t have any children needing to learn how to be masculine from you. That’d just be cruel.

    What you really saw was internet bluster and machismo from someone safe and secure in the knowledge they’d never have to back it up. It’s easy to make threats when you know your bluff won’t be called.

    Speaking of lame and ironic, you still need a name change. I don’t think your IQ is 2x’s anything. So far my kids can put up a more coherent argument.

  161. 161.

    Cassidy

    January 3, 2008 at 10:55 am

    Btw, I was visiting family, a much higher priority than witnessing your mental excrement.

  162. 162.

    John S.

    January 3, 2008 at 1:04 pm

    then you really are a pansy

    internet bluster and machismo from someone safe and secure in the knowledge they’d never have to back it up

    Speaking of lame and ironic

    A self-responding post. Well done, Cassidy.

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